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Wage indexation and discretionary monetary policy
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Wage indexation and discretionary monetary policy

Laurence Ball and Stephen G Cecchetti
The American economic review, Vol.81(5), pp.1310-1319
12/01/1991

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Analysis Economic aspects Economic research Indexation (Economics) Monetary policy Research Wages
The effects of increasing wage proportions covered by indexation are determined. A model, which combines the Barro-Gordon discretionary monetary policy model with a staggered wage-setting model, shows that indexation results in a more inflationary monetary policy.

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